One School, One Book Program
One School, One Book is a program designed to create a shared reading experience within a single elementary school community. A single chapter book is chosen, every family in the elementary school receives a copy, and every family reads that book at home over the course of a single month. Activities at school co-ordinate, promote and enrich the shared reading experience.
The program is modelled after All City Reads that have been done all over the United States, from Seattle and Chicago to Richmond, VA. The program encourages reading together at home by enabling every family and by inspiring them with a shared experience.
The best titles for the program are those rare books that can be understand by early readers and yet still interest experienced readers. E.g. E.B. White’s The Trumpet of the Swan. Or Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian in the Cupboard.
Schools participating in the program can do a variety of things at school to heighten and promote interest and discussion in the book, from school-wide assemblies to school-wide art and writing contests. Typically though, most schools rely on a daily trivia question - usually read by the principal to the whole school in the morning. This simple technique manages to create daily awareness of the book, but also to encourage in students deep, attentive, and personally gratifying listening habits. Students take pride in being in command of the book’s details and “owning” the material.
Read To Them can provide direct contact with a consultant who can help each school tailor the program to fit their needs and also supply content to help the program succeed.
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